No. You are wrong.
Why are you so bent on enforcing your definition on us? Say we come here and say hey I think X1000 is a real Amiga...that is my opinion, that is my perspective, that makes me happy and in your opinion I am a moron...will here is what I have to say...keep your opinion to yourself...
It sounds like you want to have your opinion but you don't want Thorham to have his. Although Thorham may have been interrupting others practicing their freedom of opinion that AmigaOS 4.x and the X1000 is Amiga, I don't think he was trying to be obnoxious or trolling. Perhaps it was an emotional response. This is generally more of a classic forum and some may think that the AmigaOS 4.x guys have come advertising for a few more willing converts. This thread is sneaky (and smart) advertising but does seem to play by the rules.
IMO, I don't think it matters which route C= would have chosen for Amiga. C= went bankrupt with the decisions they made then. It's more important to use the tools and resources available today to make strategic decisions on what the Amiga should do. PPC certainly looked like it had a future at the time it was chosen. It's also big endian which makes it much easier than x86 hardware to convert the Amiga to. I wouldn't want to go the x86 route even today. The 68k is easier and more fun to program and the x86 has flaws (x86 started with 8 bit registers where the 68000 had 32 bit registers). ARM is a preferable Amiga target to me in a lot of ways but the new ARMv8 ISA is similar to PPC (although they didn't go crazy with the instruction names using acronyms and they have more CISC like addressing modes). ARM is bi-endian but more efficient with little endian so PPC is a little better suited for the Amiga in that regard. The big advantage of ARM is that they license the CPU to go into proprietary SoC designs that are fully controlled by the developers. I think this is the future of computing and the best route for the Amiga. PPC is supposedly being licensed in a similar way now also. I don't think Hyperion or A-Eon have the resources or sell enough quantity to make their own PPC SoC though. I believe an enhanced 68k SoC with Amiga custom chips would sell better. Much of the work is already done today while more is being worked on in fpga. The Amiga chipset can be many times faster than AGA and processor speeds can be in excess of the 68060 inside a reasonably priced fpga today. While the performance may be modest at first, the price to performance will be reasonable and improve over time. I would rather bet on the success of fpga technology than PPC technology and Freescale with their C= like financials. Freescale was on the verge of bankruptcy after the 2008/2009 recession with their debt trading for pennies on the dollar in expectation of a bankruptcy.
